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(No ModeL) J. E. MITCHELL. DEVICE FOR RAISING BARRELS.

No. 335,373. Patented Feb. 2, 1886.

- WITJvEssEs J IJV'V'EJVTOR' flawm I JOHN E. MITCHELL, OF FOIVLER,INDIANA.

DEViCE FOR RAISING BARRELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 310,335,376, dated February2,1886.

Application filed December 23, [Si-Fl. Serial No. 1.865%. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN E. lllrrcamm, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Fowler, in the county of Benton and State of Indiana,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for RaisingBarrels; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing bad to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of thisspecification, and in which- Figure l is a side view showing my improveddevice for raising barrels and similar articles ready to be raised. Fig.2 is a similar view showing the device raised. Fig. 3 is a top View ofthe device folded down, and Figs. 4 and 5 are side views of slightmodifications of the device.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

My invention has relation to devices for raising barrels or similarheavy objects from the ground to a bench or platform; audit consists inthe improved construction and combination of parts of the same, ashereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In stores and warehouses a number of men are often required to raiseheavy barrels or other articles from the floor to a bench or platform,and in lifting the said barrels or other objects they are often damagedand the contents wasted, as well as also a number of men are required tolift them, rendering the handling of such objects expensive and lengthy.For the purpose of avoiding this and to produce a device which willenable one man to raise a weight which would require a number of men tohandle, and which at the same time will be inexpensive and easilymanufactured, as well as not liable to get out of order, I construct thedevice, which I shall now proceed to describe.

In the accompanying drawings, the letters A indicate two parallel sills,which may be mounted on rollers or casters, if desired, to make thedevice portable. Two levers, B B,

are pivoted at their lower ends, near the forward ends of the sills orskids, and are connected at their upper ends by a handle,

C, by means of which they may be manipulated. A short distance from thelower ends of these levers they are pivoted to two longitudinal bars,l),whieh are connected by means of cross-pieces It E upon their upperedges, the levers being pivoted to the bars near their forward ends, andthe rear ends of the bars are supported by two arms, F, which arepivoted at their lower ends to the sills and at their upper ends to therear ends of the bars, being parallel to the levers. The sills are coirnected at their upper edges by a cross-piece or block, G, which supportsthe rear crosspiece of the elevating-platform when the lat ter islowered. The pivotal bolts H, which pivot the arms to the sills and tothe side bars of the platform, are inserted through apcrtu res which areat opposite sides of the central line of the arms, at the opposite endsof the same, so as to prevent splitting of the arms or a strain directlyon the center line of the arms. The forward ends of the side pieces ofthe platform are cut away at the under side, so as to enable the saidends to rest upon the edge of the platform or bench upon which thebarrel or other article is to be placed. In some cases itmay bedesirable to have the lever at one side removed, and in this case thelever is secured at its lower end to an L-shaped rockshaft and arm, I J,which may be journaled in transverse hearings in the sills, and whichmay have its arm project at the other side of the platform parallel withthe lever and pivoted to the side of the platform in the same manner, asshown in Fig. 4. In other cases it may be desirable to have the platformbetter supported than by the levers and one pair of arms, and in thiscase, as shown in Fig. 5, the arms are pivoted at the ends of theplatform and the levers pivoted to the middle of the platform, andpreferably connected by means of a rock-shaft.

For the purpose of easier transport the levers may consist of the lowerportions, K, as shown in Fig. 5, which are pivoted to the platform, andupper removable and insertible han dles, L, which fit with their lowerends into sockets in the upper ends ofthe lower portions; or the upperport-ions may be made detachable and insertible by any other suitablemeans.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States- 1. In a device for raising barrelsor similar articles, the combination of two sills, a platform, parallelarms pivoted to the sills and to the platform at their ends, and leverspivoted at their lower ends to the sills and to the platform parallel tothe arms, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

2. In a device for raising barrels or similar articles, the combinationoftwo sills, a platform, parallel arms pivoted to the sills and to theplatform, and having the pivotal bolts pass- 1ng through perforations atopposite sides of the central line of the arms at opposite ends of thesame, and levers pivoted to the sills and to the platform parallel withthe arms, as and for the purpose shlWD and set forth.

3. In a device for raising barrels and similar 20 articles, thecombination of two parallel sills connected by a cross-piece, a platformconsisting of side pieces and cross-pieces secured to their upper edges,one of the said cross-pieces registering with the cross-piece of thesills, two arms pivoted at their ends to the sills and to the platformhaving their pivotal bolts passing through perforations at oppositesides of the central lines at opposite ends of the arms, and two leverspivoted at their lower ends to the sills and near the said ends to theplatform parallel with the arms, and having a handle connecting theirupper ends, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereuntoaflixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN E. MITCHELL.

Witnesses:

ULRIC Z. WILEY. WV. S. SMITH.

